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As the greatest compliment that could be paid a writer would be the assumption that the material contained in this little volume was the product of that writer's ingenuity or imagination, it seems needless for the compiler to state that every line is just what it purports to be, - bona fide answers to questions asked in the public schools. Mark Twain, with his inimitable drollery, comments in the "Century Magazine" for April, 1887, upon "English As She is Taught." Even this master of English humor acknowledges his inability to comprehend how such

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                                  II.
                              Grammatical.

  Capitals begin every line of Deity.

  Capital letters begin at breviation.

  At the beginning of every capital letters should be used.

  Capital is used at beginning of parigraf.

  An interrogatt sentense must Begin with a Capitel Letter.

  A deceletive sentense ends with a perod. An intorogative one ends with
      an intorogation point.

  Every sentence and name of God must begin with a caterpillar.

  When you speak of yourself you should begin it with a capital letter.

  When they are going to say some prose or poetry before they say the
      poetry or prose they must put a semicolon just after the
      introduction of the prose or poetry.

  A quotion is something spoken by people.

  A quotation is asking a question.

  An Exclamation Point is what causes supprise.

  Brackets set things off so they wont have anything to do with the
      sentence.

  Grammer is how to talk good.

  Grammar gives us the languish.

  We study Grammer to get the senses.

  Grammer is to tell us the parts of speeth.

  A common noun is small things.

  A proper noun is peoples names.

  A pronoun is a word when we cant get a noun.

  A pronoun is a word which is just as good as a noun.

  The two kinds of Pronouns is I and O.

  The plural is formed by turning book into books.

  Person in Grammer tells us whether he is a man or a woman. It is
      always an animal or something that isent alive.

  Gender is the distinguishing nouns without regard to sex.

  A verb is something to eat.

  An intransitiv verb expresses an act not done to another as James did
      not strike John.

  The Moods in English Gram. are the Indicative, Potential, Subjugated,
      and Infinitif.

  The optative mood is a mood in a verb when any body knows you have
      done any thing.

  The sign if shows the potative mood.

  Adverbs should always be used as adjectives and adjectives as adverbs.

  The horses run fastly. This is an adverb.

  The comparative degree expresses that one thing is up higher than
      another and the Supulative is the highest of all.

  A dependent sentence is one that hangs from its clause.

  All sentences are either simple or confound.

  To conjugate a sentence is to tell all the things that it means.

  The word governed by another word is called its regiment.

  Rhythm is a horse trotting on a road.

  Rhyme makes two words sound just alike.

  A figure means something different from what it says.

  Can in poetry is sometimes used for cant.

  Prose tells things that are true right along just as they are and
      poetry makes it up as you go along.

  A preposition is a word that shews the position of one thing with kind
      regards to another.

                                  III.
                             Mathematical.

  Arithmetic is the signs of numbers.

  A factor is a number which divided by another number equals the number
      of parts.

  A Prim Facktor is a Factor that stands for a Facter.

  The sins of Division are a short horizontail line between two doits
      and a curve line between the Deviser and Divident.

  The sines of Division will be like the quocient.

  Multiplication is the process of takeing one or more many times to
      multiply the produck if the work is write.

  A common fraction is made up of two parts with a separation between
      them.

  A vulgar fraction has one fraction over the line and the other under
      it.

  The Denomator is the bottom of the fraction. The Numerator tells how
      many there are in it.

  A Decimal Fraction is one with a point.

  A straight line is any distance between two places.

  Parallel lines are lines that can never meet until they run together.

  A Horace uncle line is a line that isn’t crooked.

  A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

  A hexameter is inscribed in a circle.

  A foursided figure is a trapezium which is the general name for a
      kite.

  A parallelogram has all its sides parallel.

  The base of a triangle is the sum of its two sides.

  Things which are equal to each other are equal to anything else.

  To find the number of square feet in a room you multiply the room by
      the number of the feet. The product is the result.

                                  IV.
                             Geographical.

                             (American.)

  The three natural divisions of America are Europe, Ashea and Africa.

  North America is separated by Spain.

  The countries of North America are Britschish, Washington, Canada Nina
      and Mexica.

  America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey.

  America consists from north to south about 500 miles.

  Amireca is in the torade zone.

  The climit of America is very worm.

  The climate of America is modrant—modern in the middle.

  The principle mountains of America are the Alagany and on the cost
      range on the eastern part all.

  The Rocking Mountains are the graitest in America.

  The great Lakes of America is champagne.

  The great lakes of America are Siperior, Ontarria and Hurryon,
      Michigan.

  The principal mts. of America are lamb beaf veal.

  The rivers of America are ohio Artic an drandartic.

  The United States is quite a small country compared with some other
      countrys, but is about as industrious.

  The capital of the United States is Long Island.

  One of the leading industries of the United States is mollasses
      book-covers numbers gas teaching lumber manufactures paper-making
      publishers coal.

  The chief products of the United States is troupil freuts an tobacto.
      The climit has 2 sesons a rainey and a dry.

  The names of states on the Gulf of Mexico is United States.

  The five seaports of the U. S. are Newfunlan and Sanfrancisco.

  The principal seaports is cotton wool shoes.

  The principal cities of the United States are Bath Lynn Lowell
      Lawrence.

  The principal products of the U. S. is earthquakes and volcanoes.

  The manufactured products of the United States is fish and agriculture
      and imports.

  The principle products of New England are dairying shipbuilding wine
      coffee tropic fruets and cloathes.

  The exports of New England are lumbering fishing ice cutting wood
      chopping.

  The prinicpal sports of New England are cotten tobaco ice.

  The principal occupation of New England is shipping goods.

  Mineing is mostely carried on in new Englyn.

  The climit of New English is hot worm and coal.

  The coaste city’s of New England are New Haven and Seaport.

  The coast cities of New England are Boston.

  The Vermont state is south west of Mass.

  The New London State is near the Meremack River.

  The principal mountain range in England is Kartardin.

  Providence is the leading commercial city of New England situated on
      the Southern part of the cost of Maine.
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